To get to the car park by 11 it meant a 9 30 departure from Leeds on a sunny but cold day. The day before, West Ham, humiliated in mid-week by the rampant and surprisingly fluid Wolves had lost again 0 – 1 this time to Stoke City, keeping the slender 3-point gap between them and Burnley.  There was something reachable about it. It looked small and bridgable. The pressure was really on. Manager Laws made all the right noises as hope and optimism still remained. A Division below, Newcastle and West Brom looked like they would be the ones to come up, but as yet there were still no certainties for relegation other than Portsmouth. Bolton, in relative safety, were trounced 4 – 0 at home by Manchester United. The wine we had with dinner tasted all the sweeter.

     Before the game David Dunn had demonstrated that he isn’t quite the sharpest tool in the box with his crass comments that he hoped Blackburn won 10 – 0. But he had the last laugh when he scored the solitary goal. Des Kelly in the Mail bemoaned the daftness of Jermaine Defoe writing his new sports column. Kelly commented that Defoe would probably be writing it very slowly in crayon. It was the only thing funny on a disheartening weekend.

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